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The latest news about the Halo series of games from Microsoft

  • Episode 83: Halo 3 and more show with special guests from This Spartan Life

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    It’s the Halo 3 and more show with guest hosts Damian and Fyb3roptik. We talk about Halo Wars, Peter Jackson’s Wingnut Interactive, What people want to see in Halo Wars and Halo 3, and other games people play, plus we have an interview with This Spartan Life in the beginning. Pod art comes from Stigmatic this week and thanks to Ciclonic for editing audio. This one’s an hour and 7 minutes long. Enjoy it!

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  • Episode 83: Halo 3 and more show with special guests from This Spartan Life

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    Download | Show Notes

    It’s the Halo 3 and more show with guest hosts Damian and Fyb3roptik. We talk about Halo Wars, Peter Jackson’s Wingnut Interactive, What people want to see in Halo Wars and Halo 3, and other games people play, plus we have an interview with This Spartan Life in the beginning. Pod art comes from Stigmatic this week and thanks to Ciclonic for editing audio. This one’s an hour and 7 minutes long. Enjoy it!

    ‹ Episode 82: Podtacular Update with Special Guest: StuntmuttupEpisode 84: Tips show with special guests from Halowiki.net ›

  • Dead Man’s Potluck: Round 2

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    Monday night, a bunch of us got together for something Dweezle calls ‘Dead Man’s Potluck’. Everyone had to bring a silly gametype. (I was not allowed to use the Team Carnage options – party poopers, all of ’em.) It was a fun time – and Dweezle’s written it all up. And Eisen Feuer filmed the whole shebang – that’s a lot of video! Check it out.(Louis Wu 21:28:26 UTC)

  • A Miner Problem.

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    Doh! Almost forgot to post today’s One One Se7en. Maybe it was my subconscious… telling me to keep away from Halo Wars jokes…(Louis Wu 20:09:08 UTC)

  • I got a bask’eball jones…

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    No Soup 4 You was reading nba.com, and ran across the blog of Gilbert Arenas, of the Washington Wizards. What’s this guy doing with some of his extra cash? Why… he’s sponsoring Final Boss! Nice.(Louis Wu 20:07:23 UTC)

  • Halo: Mobile Portal Code – Cracked

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    Wow. So the letters on the news page (I’ll be yanking them soon, so look now) were noticed by two separate groups within 60 seconds of going live. (Probably more – but c0ld vengeance mentioned them in IRC’s #hbo channel, and Pratch sent mail about them; nobody else pointed them out to ME.) c0ld started a thread on the forum, which got a lot of decent speculation… and then on irc, Decommissioner (with a little spelling help from Konrad) nailed it down – half an hour after it went live. The hive mind works well! The Portal code, for those who can find the Vault on their Verizon phone, is ‘GRAVEMIND’ – courtesy of IN-FUSIO and the HBO community. Enjoy!(Louis Wu 17:12:34 UTC)

  • Halo: Mobile Portal Launches

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    A press release went out over the wire this morning – Verizon and IN-FUSIO (the mobile games publisher with rights to Halo on mobile phones) have launched ‘Halo: Mobile Portal’ for Verizon Get It Now customers. If you have a Get It Now phone, you can download the portal and have access to Halo wallpapers, ringtones, XBL stats, story snippets, and more. The section contains a locked area called ‘The Vault’ – content here is available only through codes hidden throughout the Halo universe. What does this mean? Well, one of them is available here at HBO. More details are forthcoming.(Louis Wu 16:23:46 UTC)

  • More MLG Pro Picks

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    MLG’s feature on pro picks continues, with Samurai providing his predictions for the coming playoffs. Same 8 teams that Elamite Warrior picked… but not in the same order. Thanks, 3Suns.(Louis Wu 15:28:56 UTC)

  • Norwegian Halo 2 Tourney

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    Stian Øby Johansen sent word about a huge Norwegian Halo 2 tourney – largest ever in that country, apparently. (The info page is in Norwegian.) FFA, 1v1, and 4v4 competitions, with lots of prizes (including one surprise prize). November 17-19 in Oslo… be there or be Swedish!(Louis Wu 12:44:53 UTC)

  • The Rescue

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    Over at HaloGrid, imSuck put together ‘The Rescue‘, a webcomic that uses screenshots from the Halo Wars trailer and his own very internet brand of humor. lolz.(Louis Wu 12:40:23 UTC)

  • I’m still better then you.

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    Lukey25 found a pretty funny comic at Wayneker.com. The art’s nothing to write home about – but the strips are great. (And the one above is Halo-related.)(Louis Wu 12:37:29 UTC)

  • Narc to the Rescue

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    Narcogen has noticed that a lot of people are reacting in not-so-rational ways to Halo Wars; recently, he’s done his best to dispel some of the worst reasoning. You can find some great arguments about the handling of the Halogen project in this thread (try here, here, and here), and over at Rampancy.net, he’s written up an entire article on the Battle Rifle Debate (“how come the Spartans in the Halo Wars trailer are using a gun that showed up in Halo 2, even though HW is supposed to take place before Halo 1?”). I have very few illusions that his arguments will actually sway the most rabid of naysayers… but for folks who haven’t really been paying attention that closely, his writing should give you a decent, relatively unbiased view of the situation(s).(Louis Wu 12:28:57 UTC)

  • Episodic Gaming

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    CNN takes a look at the rise of episodic gaming – and games like Halo 2, with its cliffhanger ending, are credited with opening the door, in a way. Give it a read. Thanks, Obienator.(Louis Wu 12:20:52 UTC)

  • Halo 2 Vista vids at GameTrailers

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    At GameTrailers.com, you’ll find a pair of new Halo 2 Vista gameplay trailers (in regular and HD), recorded at X06. (Look for the October 3 content.) As with previous H2Vista gameplay vids, it’s clear that folks aren’t used to the controls yet; there’s a lot of standing in one place going on. However, you should get a decent sense for how the game looks, compared to the Xbox version. Chrisvioxxx was first with the news.(Louis Wu 12:12:53 UTC)

  • 7th Column Chess Tournament

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    This week it was decided to make a new tournament for the 7th Column to spice things up a bit. Here’s the juicy info about it. Cover your eyes!

  • Ensemble Codenamed Halo Wars… Phoenix?

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    Ok, you have to be kidding me. Supposedly this is nothing more than an outlandishly freak coincidence, but according to the developer blog of Ensemble’s Bruce Shelley, the internal codename used for the Halo Wars project is Phoenix– the same codename used for a scuttled project at Bungie a few years ago that was rumored to be a strategy game of some kind, perhaps a fantasy game in the vein of Myth.

    Shelley’s entry doesn’t give a lot of information about the game, but it does tell us who at Ensemble is working on it so far:

    The Halo Wars team is the fastest growing at ES right now. Much of The WarChiefs team is rolling over to it and many of our new employees are also joining. The team is being led by veteran ES producer Chris Rippy and Lead Programmer Angelo Laudon. Both have been with ES from the start, nearly 12 years ago. Angelo was Lead Programmer on Age I and Age II. The Art Lead is Mathew Goldman, an industry veteran with many titles to his credit from years at Bioware. Lead Designer is Graeme Devine, another industry veteran with 20+ years experience. We think the project is in great hands.

    The name Graeme Devine at least should be familiar to those fans perhaps new to the RTS genre but familiar with first-person shooters, as he worked with Id Software on Quake 3 and Doom 3.

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    Ok, you have to be kidding me. Supposedly this is nothing more than an outlandishly freak coincidence, but according to the developer blog of Ensemble’s Bruce Shelley, the internal codename used for the Halo Wars project is Phoenix– the same codename used for a scuttled project at Bungie a few years ago that was rumored to be a strategy game of some kind, perhaps a fantasy game in the vein of Myth.


    Shelley’s entry doesn’t give a lot of information about the game, but it does tell us who at Ensemble is working on it so far:



    The Halo Wars team is the fastest growing at ES right now. Much of The WarChiefs team is rolling over to it and many of our new employees are also joining. The team is being led by veteran ES producer Chris Rippy and Lead Programmer Angelo Laudon. Both have been with ES from the start, nearly 12 years ago. Angelo was Lead Programmer on Age I and Age II. The Art Lead is Mathew Goldman, an industry veteran with many titles to his credit from years at Bioware. Lead Designer is Graeme Devine, another industry veteran with 20+ years experience. We think the project is in great hands.


    The name Graeme Devine at least should be familiar to those fans perhaps new to the RTS genre but familiar with first-person shooters, as he worked with Id Software on Quake 3 and Doom 3.



  • Submit Stuff for Episode 84: The Tips Show

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    Episode 83 is on the way, Ciclonic is putting in the final touches to make sure it comes out just like we want it. It’s a really good show with some interesting special guests from the Halo community. In the mean time we gotta get some stuff to talk about for the next show…

    I like to set my sensitivity to 50 but now I get whiplash turning my head

    Got a tip on how to level up and stay there? We’re looking for tips that will help players at levels 25-35. Want to tell us the fastest way to use jumps to get places? Or how to use a sniper rifle most effectively? Or how to counter a noob combo? Or what combo to use if you can’t find a power weapon or a noob combo? Or maybe ways to keep your team working together? Any general tip you have that’s for a higher level, we want to hear it! Just send it in with your gamertag and if it’s good we’ll mention it on the show and give you credit.

    On Zanzibar I like to set the fan to high speed and blow over the seawall on top of the other team

    Got a tip for Zanzibar on how to really dominate? Send it in! We’re looking for general tips for this map plus specific tips for CTF and Assault and even Oddball and KOTH just for kicks. This is your chance to show your leet knowledge of this sweet mid-range map!

    I like to jump on the sign and then on the roof and run the whole level looking at pretty gray untextured stuff

    Got a campaign tip? We’ll be talking about those too. For those numbskulls like me that still haven’t beaten campaign on legendary, this may be a big help! Send in any tips you have with your gamertag and if they’re good we’ll mention them on the show.

    Deadline is Friday night

    at about 5:30pm EST, so get your tips in pronto! The earlier you get them in, the more likely they’ll be on the show.

  • Submit Stuff for Episode 84: The Tips Show

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    Episode 83 is on the way, Ciclonic is putting in the final touches to make sure it comes out just like we want it. It’s a really good show with some interesting special guests from the Halo community. In the mean time we gotta get some stuff to talk about for the next show…

    I like to set my sensitivity to 50 but now I get whiplash turning my head

    Got a tip on how to level up and stay there? We’re looking for tips that will help players at levels 25-35. Want to tell us the fastest way to use jumps to get places? Or how to use a sniper rifle most effectively? Or how to counter a noob combo? Or what combo to use if you can’t find a power weapon or a noob combo? Or maybe ways to keep your team working together? Any general tip you have that’s for a higher level, we want to hear it! Just send it in with your gamertag and if it’s good we’ll mention it on the show and give you credit.

    On Zanzibar I like to set the fan to high speed and blow over the seawall on top of the other team

    Got a tip for Zanzibar on how to really dominate? Send it in! We’re looking for general tips for this map plus specific tips for CTF and Assault and even Oddball and KOTH just for kicks. This is your chance to show your leet knowledge of this sweet mid-range map!

    I like to jump on the sign and then on the roof and run the whole level looking at pretty gray untextured stuff

    Got a campaign tip? We’ll be talking about those too. For those numbskulls like me that still haven’t beaten campaign on legendary, this may be a big help! Send in any tips you have with your gamertag and if they’re good we’ll mention them on the show.

    Deadline is Friday night

    at about 5:30pm EST, so get your tips in pronto! The earlier you get them in, the more likely they’ll be on the show.

  • GIA Team SWAT Tournament Round-Up

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    A while ago Games in Action announced it was to host a Team SWAT Tournament.  Well over the last two months teams have been battling it out for a chance to win $200.  Read on to find out all the details about who won.